CPEB1 and infection: Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein 1 (CPEB1), responsible for cytoplasmic polyadenylation, was found to have a major role in infection-related cytopathology and post-transcriptional changes in different strains of HCMV (TB40/E and Towne) and in Herpes Simplex virus 2 in different tissue types [97].